Wednesday, 18 January 2012

X-Event is pretty self-explanatory...Any event, be it an in-comic event, comic con, etc, concerning or revolving around the X-Men is gonna be covered by me in this segment...

Come April 2012, Marvel is gonna kickstart their new comic book event: Avengers vs X-Men (AvX)! The 12 issue biweekly series revolves around the war between the Avengers & X-Men that begins after the rebirth of the Phoenix Force.

^Promo posters for AvX

Recenty the AvX teasers were just pouring in! Some are great dueling duos & some just leave you scratching your head (Hulk vs Emma Frost??)! Check out all the cool art below...

The one with Spider-woman & Gambit HAS to be the WORST teaser of them all!! The anatomy of both characters is just WAY off! Spider-woman looks like she's got the body of a female Avatar! And Gambit looks like a coat hanger with a trench coat hung on it! Arrgh! But that's just one, the rest are pretty awesome looking! (Well, I do have issues with the Wolverine vs Cap teaser as well, but I'll overlook that so that I don't appear too cranky :P)

And NOW, since covers for AvX #1 have also been released, I thought I'd add them in along with the cover for #0...Check out Scarlet Witch & Hope Summers (not dueling each other) on the cover of issue #0 (that releases in March, commencing the whole event). Pity that big-ass title covers all that gorgeous sketch art! Hence the cover without titles is below as well...

AvX #1 features the (pretty common superhero-team pose) of the Avengers going head-to-head against the X-Men. I'm loving the variant of Captain America vs Cyclops a lot more though! I think it's a much better match-up than what they had for both characters in their respective teasers...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Hadn't I chanced upon this cool artwork today, you guys would've been getting a totally different Xalt! Today's fan art comes from artist Aviv Or, who definitely seems to be a fan of the hit TV show Community (& the X-Men).

Now I myself haven't watch the show but from what reactions this artwork has got online I've deduced that this guy's matched the characters almost perfectly- my only grouse is that Phoenix has been matched to a blonde character, when she is quintessentially a redhead :( But I still love the artwork even though I dunno the characters so take a gander at the character posters below...

Friday, 13 January 2012

Don't worry you ain't gonna be seeing this same new look for the WHOLE of 2012! But it's a new look nonetheless! Hope you guys like it...I thought of going all "Schism-y" on you guys :P

FYI Schism was the big Marvel X-Men event of 2011 that divided the X-Men between 2 camps: Team Wolverine & Team Cyclops. The brutal violence in my new blog banner is courtesy X-Men Schism #5! We all knew how much Wolverine & Cyclops held their grudges against each other. We just never thought it could actually come to this! Check out the 5 pages from the #5 issue below that I used to create the new blog banner!

And you can download the wallpaper size (1280 x 1024) of the banner below!

I tried to get a font that is as close to the Schism-font as possible. After asking about it on Yahoo Answers I managed to get one- Treacherous Curves! I think it is seriously working it's magic in the banner imho...Check out a sample of the Schism font below from the X-Men Schism #1 cover:

Now about the background, the Wolverine image comes from the cover of Fear Itself Wolverine #3 (of 3). The New York scenery is a pic I got off the Net. Below is the cover featuring a bad-ass Wolverine chained to a missile & besides it is the background in wallpaper form (1280 x 1024).

Feel free to comment below (in Blogger's new threaded commenting feature) on what you'd like to see more or less of on the blog. I got a couple of cosplay posts & quite a few X-movie concept art posts lined up, so do lemme know what you'd like to see next...

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Heyy there all you X-Men fans! Here's wishing all of you a very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2012! I was continuing on my quest to find some good Christmassy X-Men pictures & managed to find this gem- a Wolverine snowflake! (Never thought you'd see both those words in the same sentence did ya?? :P )

Now is the time to make your list of resolutions (that you may or may not keep) or simply not decide to at all & take the Year 2012 as it comes! But this year the X-Men decided to make some New Year resolutions of their own & I've taken it upon myself to share 'em with you guys! :P

Rogue
To stay in touch with all my friends & family...
(< Gorgeous artwork by an artist who will be revealed in an Xalt post later on my blog!)

Magneto
Continue to use my magnetic personality to get more mutants to my cause of a Mutant Utopia!

About Me

I became a huge X-Men fanatic ever since I watched the first X-Men film back in 2000. Since then my voracious appetite for all things X has just grown & finally led me to starting my own blog in 2011. Hope you'll enjoy it!